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"Sooner or later, your past catches up to you." That's the tagline  Disney is going with for their live-action Winnie the Pooh movie Christopher Robin , starring Ewan McGregor . While watching the teaser trailer (which debuted today) and getting my first look at a real life Winnie the Pooh talking bear, I couldn't help but be reminded of  Seth MacFarlane 's Ted , the R-rated comedy which featured a protagonist who's a foul-mouthed talking teddy bear. Ironically enough, MacFarlane's talking bear Ted has a much more cuddly and lovable look to him. Disney decided to give Winnie the Pooh a crude and homely-looking appearance -- not exactly what you'd expect for their intended child audience. So I decided to create this mashup trailer, which rewrites Christopher Robin's (McGregor) backstory to suggest that Ted was his original bear and he just sewed up the teddy bear's parts to look like Winnie the Pooh. Talk about your past catching up to y...

In this clever video remix, Catherine Grant takes audio from the season 2 trailer of HBO's Westworld and couples it with tinted footage from the 2015 historical drama  Suffragette , starring Carey Mulligan . The result is a charming and clever video short that plays like a silent film from the late 1920s; the movement seems to slightly pause every few frames, giving everything an archival footage feel, like we're looking at something dug up from the past. It's a neat moving image experiment. Watch Grant's video remix  Centenary Dream 1918-2018 below.

Video Essayist Philip Brubaker has released his latest moving image work It's A Wonderful Hitchcock , a tantalizing reimagining of Frank Capra 's It's a Wonderful Life . Brubaker expounds on his piece at Vimeo : " Alfred Hitchcock 's unmistakable cinematic stamp is the inspiration for this re-imagining of It's A Wonderful Life . Bernard Hermann 's score for Vertigo serves as the key ingredient to bring out the tension, anxiety and anguish of Frank Capra's film. Allusions to other Hitchcock films arise when this Christmas classic starring Jimmy Stewart is recut to feel like an offering from the Master of Suspense." The result is a fascinating rendering that challenges our predetermined image association with Capra's film. The key crossover element here is Stewart, who stars in both Vertigo and It's A Wonderful Life . Brubaker here speaks to the larger dialogue of Video Essayists challenging the vault of moving images, meaning tha...

Guillermo del Toro 's latest film The Shape of Water (my  review ) is currently cleaning up with accolades and guild nominations during this awards season. Shape of Water is essentially a love story, with the unique spin being that one of the players is an amphibian who learns to communicate through sign language. After reflecting upon the film during the weeks since I first saw it, I started thinking about a forgotten film from the 2000s, M. Night Shyamalan 's much-maligned Lady in the Water . The unexpected similarities between Shyamalan's bedtime story and del Toro's film were hard to ignore. Both films feature protagonists who are custodians with communication disabilities. In Shape , Sally Hawkins  is a janitor at a government laboratory and a mute. In Lady , Paul Giamatti  is an apartment building superintendent with a bad stutter. They both live lives of solace (Hawkins lives above an old movie theatre and Giamatti lives alone in a tiny pool house). Their l...

Chicago sure makes a gorgeous backdrop for sci-fi fare ( Divergent , Jupiter Ascending ) and big action spectacles from Hollywood ( The Dark Knight , Transformers: Dark of the Moon ), so it's no wonder that (arguably) the current biggest movie star in the world Dwayne Johnson has set his next sure-to-be blockbuster in the Windy City as well. Johnson's latest special effects extravaganza Rampage is based on the 1986 arcade game of the same name from Bally Midway . The game itself has gone through revamps over the years, appearing on platforms such as Atari and Sega Master System. As I watched the first trailer for this live action adaptation, I marveled at how striking my beloved home city looked in several shots, but then I began to have a stasis of image association in my head. The flat 2D look of the original "Rampage" game struggled to surface in my conscience. So I did what I do best and I worked with the moving images in my latest video essay and rendered t...

Since it's Halloween weekend I went ahead and reimagined Tim Burton 's ghost-driven comedy classic Beetlejuice to the rhythm and style of David Lowery 's singular and masterful drama A Ghost Story (one of the very best films of 2017, hands down). For those who've seen both films, the parallels are clear; ghosts covered in bed sheets, spirits wandering between worlds and a house that carries significant emotional weight and resonance. I call this one A Ghost With The Most Story . Enjoy. And for reference, here goes the original trailer for A Ghost Story .

Yorgos Lanthimos ' new film The Killing of a Sacred Deer tells a pretty serious and morbid tale. (The film review will follow on this site.) The original trailer featured an eerie cover of Ellie Goulding 's song "Burn" so I thought I'd lighten the mood a bit and remix it with the original -- and upbeat! -- number. Here goes the original trailer for comparison Happy Wednesday everyone. UPDATE : Ellie Goulding herself tweeted about this! Saw that last week- crazy... https://t.co/C3Lhqf51Lv — Ellie Goulding (@elliegoulding) October 25, 2017